GapFiller vs Common Curriculum: personal archive vs team curriculum mapping
Compare GapFiller and Common Curriculum — teacher-owned workspace versus collaborative school curriculum planning.
GapFiller or Common Curriculum — which fits you?
Choose Common Curriculum if your school needs shared units, department alignment and collaborative curriculum maps. Choose GapFiller if you are an individual teacher who needs a personal workspace: calendar, timetable, materials and a curriculum you own and reuse year after year — even when you change schools. They solve different problems; GapFiller is not a district curriculum platform.
Side-by-side comparison
| Feature | Common Curriculum | GapFiller |
|---|---|---|
| Primary job | Collaborative curriculum mapping for teams | Personal teaching workspace + archive |
| Who owns the work | Often the school / department | You — the individual teacher |
| Daily lesson calendar | Secondary to unit maps | Core — day / week / month calendar |
| Timetable generation | Not the focus | Generate lessons from your timetable |
| Materials archive | Shared curriculum resources | Personal files linked to lessons and topics |
| Leaving the school | Access may stay with the institution | Archive is designed to stay with you |
Choose Common Curriculum if…
- Your department must map shared units across grades
- Admins need visibility into team curriculum alignment
- Collaboration across many teachers is the main requirement
Choose GapFiller if…
- You plan for your own classes and want one personal system
- You need calendar + materials + curriculum topics together
- Your career spans multiple schools and you need continuity
Frequently asked questions
Only partially. If you need school-wide collaborative maps, Common Curriculum (or similar) fits better. If you need a personal planner and archive, GapFiller fits better.
Build your personal teaching workspace
Lessons, materials, calendar and yearly plans in one archive that follows you across schools.